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The Israeli Military’s Denial of the Gaza Death Toll was always to Shape Western News Reporting
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The Israeli Military’s Denial of the Gaza Death Toll was always to Shape Western News Reporting

Juan Cole

The horrid Bill Maher and his guest Van Jones even guffawed about dead Gaza babies.

US military Action in Iran risks igniting a regional and global Nuclear Cascade

US military Action in Iran risks igniting a regional and global Nuclear Cascade

01/31/2026 By The Conversation

Dance and Music are potent forms of cultural Defiance in Palestine

Dance and Music are potent forms of cultural Defiance in Palestine

01/31/2026 By Waging Nonviolence

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Scammed in Afghanistan

Scammed in Afghanistan

The announcement by the New York Times that one of the supposedly prominent Taliban with whom the Karzai government has been negotiating turns out to […]

Juan Cole

Environment
Tyger, Tyger, a fire snuffed out

Tyger, Tyger, a fire snuffed out

The Romantic poet William Blake wrote, in the age of European colonial expansion and encounter with Asian fauna: TIGER, tiger, burning bright In the forests […]

Juan Cole

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Looking for PETN, Scanning Grandma at the Airport, and the Future of Air Travel

Looking for PETN, Scanning Grandma at the Airport, and the Future of Air Travel

In all the furor about the new TSA scanners and pat-downs at airports, what surprises me is that there is very little discussion of what […]

Juan Cole

Environment
Congressional “Study” Attacking Climate Change Found to be Plagiarized, Error-Ridden

Congressional “Study” Attacking Climate Change Found to be Plagiarized, Error-Ridden

A USA Today investigation of a 2006 congressional “study” attacking climate change reveals that 35 of the 91 pages are plagiarized from a textbook by […]

Juan Cole

Afghanistan
NATO sets 2014 Deadline for Afghanistan Withdrawal (but not US), as Thousands demonstrate in London

NATO sets 2014 Deadline for Afghanistan Withdrawal (but not US), as Thousands demonstrate in London

The Afghan Pajhwok News Agency reports a seeming discrepancy between statements of NATO and US officials with regard to when the Afghanistan mission will wind […]

Juan Cole

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Bush could be Arrested in Europe: Turley to Olbermann

Bush could be Arrested in Europe: Turley to Olbermann

Keith Olbermann interviews Jonathan Turley on London mayor Boris Johnson’s warning that if Bush comes to Europe to flog his ‘memoirs’, he might be arrested. […]

Juan Cole

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“Don’t Touch My Junk”: The Rap Video

“Don’t Touch My Junk”: The Rap Video

Mike Adams at NaturalNews.com has a rap video on the intrusiveness of the new TSA inspections at airports. It is based on the protest of […]

Juan Cole

Afghanistan
Southern Afghans Have Never Heard of 9/11

Southern Afghans Have Never Heard of 9/11

An opinion survey carried out in Helmand and Kandahar provinces showed that 92% of the Afghan respondents (1000 men) had never heard of 9/11. Most […]

Juan Cole

Afghanistan
Juppe: Afghanistan a 'Trap'; NATO stuck There Past 2014

Juppe: Afghanistan a ‘Trap’; NATO stuck There Past 2014

At the NATO summit in Lisbon, it is expected to be announced that although 2014 is the target date by which NATO and US troops […]

Juan Cole

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